You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if pxe and wakeonlan are supported in your clients. Then i used clonezilla to clone drive and put image on external usb drive. Boot you virtual server with clonezilla and create. Clonezilla live is ace for cloning single computers to a local storage device or network share. It also includes gparted, which if you didnt know, is a handy linux partitioning application. My image on the usb drive is a folder with several 2gb image files of the whole drive. Virtualbox is a generalpurpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. When i use clonezilla server edition to do a multicast clone, the client machines just keep waiting, any hint. Jan 22, 2014 a simple search for clonezilla virtualbox returned in the first three links a tutorial and a video tutorial.
If some of you dont already know, clonezilla is a disaster recovery backup software designed to clone or backup entire drives. They just use once and will vanish after the machine. The suggested setup for a clonezilla imaging server is to use a virtual machine vm or a standalone system with dual. The script starts interactive bash and perl scripts. I have been left with these files and am unsure of how to get a bootable image from them. Please note that this is a walkthrough so do not let the length of the article scare you. Clonezilla is a partition and disk imagingcloning program similar to true image or norton ghost. Downloads to download drbl live, select the following cpu architecture, file type, repository, then click the download button. Clonezilla live and clonezilla server edition in drbl. I captured an image from a windows 7 computer using clonezilla.
Clonezilla helps you to to do bare metal backup and recovery. You will learn how to image and sysprep the host system and. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and. If your machine comes with uefi secure boot enabled, you have to use amd64 x8664 version either debianbased or ubuntubased of clonezilla live checksum files are gpg signed by drbl project, which has the fingerprint. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery. This is useful for copying one linux installation to multiple computers without losing much time, e.
Select restoredisk restore an image to client disk. Checksum files are gpg signed by drbl project, which has the fingerprint. There are 2 repositories of clonezilla you can download. I used an open source application called clonezilla. If your machine comes with uefi secure boot enabled, you have to use amd64 x8664 version either debianbased or ubuntubased of clonezilla live. It also downloads a drbl project public key, download and install drbl package from repository. Running clonezilla server edition on a virtual machine. Running clonezilla server edition on a virtual machine hello we are planning on deploying the server edition as part of our disaster recovery solution, and one of my colleagues wanted to know if it can be done on a virtual machine. Clonezilla image to virtualbox i have just used clonezilla to take an image from an xp machine in order to virtualise it in virtualbox. Do not send me personal messages pms for troubleshooting, they are simply deleted. I wanted to test pfsense and since the server in question had dual nics it was a perfect fit. I few months back i created a clonezilla image of my freebsd 9 intel based web server for a backup.
How to explore a clonezilla backup using virtualbox youtube. I see a couple of text menus and it does no matter if i start it with vbox 5. A simple search for clonezilla virtualbox returned in the first three links a tutorial and a video tutorial. To download clonezilla live, select the following cpu architecture, file type, repository, then click the download button. Apr 11, 2019 in this video we talk about drbl and clonezila and we discuss on how you can clone or deploy your image operating system to many machine step by step downloading link of drbl iso image. Nov 20, 2019 the first one, named clonezilla live, is the default selection and the one that should be used by anyone. The installation will be over ppa, no need to use standalone packages for manual installation. With pacakge drbl is installed, say, if you want to create a clonezilla server, using i686 clonezilla live as the os of clients,each network card will provide clonezilla service to 40 clients, you can run.
Therefore we do not release i386 ubuntubased clonezilla live for ubuntu 19. Clonezilla server tutorial using virturalbox youtube. I now want to restore the clonezilla image of my freebsd web server to virtualbox. Sep 26, 2016 the tutorial describes installation steps for clonezilla server edition on ubuntu 16. If you are only looking to backup or restore a single machine, clonezilla live is what you need. Clonezilla restore windows 7 image in a virtual machine. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. If you download that iso file, it is actually a live, preconfigured version of drbl, that has both clonezilla live and clonezilla server on it. Hello everyone, this tutorial will teach you how to use clonezilla live server. This is sufficient to clone single machines real or virtual using unicast. Learn how to use the open source clonezilla live cloning software to convert. Clonezilla disk cloning and imaging norton ghost substitute. Install diskless remote boot in linux drbl and related files.
Clonezilla is opensource cloning system ocs and it is a partition and disk imagingcloning program. If auto is selected, any one of them will be used automatically. While clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it can clone many 40 plus. As for the clonezilla iso, i dont know how this image is expected to work. Clonezilla is a partition and disk imagingcloning program similar to true image. Clonezilla live, which runs from a livecd and clonezilla server version. Only what can make problem is specific drivers on desktop when restore. Ok, so what i did over the weekend in a test to clone 1 pc to many was to run clonezilla server in a vm. The tutorial describes installation steps for clonezilla server edition on ubuntu 16. How to image and clone hard drives with clonezilla. I have not used the clonezilla livecd so dont know if uses a graphical environment. Clonezilla server live tutorial how to image and deploy to client. If your machine comes with uefi secure boot enabled, you have to use amd64 x8664. Clonezilla server edition installation on ubuntu brezulars.
Besides clonezilla live cd and live usb, clonezilla live can be put on a pxe server so that a client can be booted via network to use clonezilla live. The image file can be on local disk, ssh server, samba server, nfs server or webdav server. Two types of clonezilla are available, clonezilla live and clonezilla server edition. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Nov 02, 20 this video will show you how to restore your clonezilla full disk backup into a virtualbox virtual machine, so you can access those old lost files. Clonezilla server two kinds of clonezilla server are available, one is clonezilla lite server, and the other is clonezilla server edition clonezilla lite server from clonezilla live 2. Copying a virtual linux system from virtualbox to a real. Others may want to test an existing environment with specific apps or even updates. All versions of clonezilla live support machine with legacy bios. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk.
However, the process should work similarlyexcept that my live cd in both the image creation and image rebuild in the vbox vm were simply the. So i reformatted the freebsd 9 server and installed pfsense. In clonezilla box mode, the setting and config files of client will not be saved to the drbl server. For a thorough introduction to virtualization and virtualbox. In this mode, the loading and necessary disk space of server will be lighter than that in full clonezilla mode. Physical to virtual p2v using virtualbox some people may want to run their existing system on another. Virtualbox cant boot from gparted iso or clonezilla iso. Free disaster recovery and p2v with clonezilla esx. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, it all depends on what you need it for.
Clonezilla livecd, popularly known as clonezilla, is an open source free linux distribution based on the debian gnulinux operating system. I have used clonezilla to clone hard drive to hard drive successfully. Clonezilla server edition installation on ubuntu brezulars blog. Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone tool similar to norton ghost. You should be able to boot up the new winxp vm in virtualbox with clonezilla. The distribution offers a minimalistic, textmode interface, specifically designed to load fast enough to help system. In this tutorial we will see how to install the clonezilla server on systems running ubuntu 12. It provides a live cd that contains all the necessary utilities and libraries for cloning the content of hard disk drives. Migrate to a virtual linux environment with clonezilla ibm developer. If your machine comes with uefi secure boot enabled, you have to use amd64 version of alternative ubuntubased clonezilla live. Iso make sure it has the correct virtual hardware before, of course and then restore the clonezilla files from your workstations smb share.
I didnt understand your problem with the ubuntu iso. In this article i will try to explain the differences between clonezilla live and clonezilla server drbl. The systems that you want to clone can use whatever linux distribution you prefer. Clonezilla live and clonezilla server edition in drbl 2019. The free and open source software for disk imaging and cloning. Mar 06, 2009 the imaging i did with clonezilla, however, was actually pulled from this esx server vm.
To get better performance, install the vmware tools for the virtual. Do not reply with the quote button, please use the post reply, at. Id like to use service instead of tftp service for my pxe clients to download the clonezilla live root file system clonezillalivefilesystem. Cloning linux systems with clonezilla server edition. Oct 28, 2016 i captured an image from a windows 7 computer using clonezilla. This video will show you how to restore your clonezilla full disk backup into a virtualbox virtual machine, so you can access those old lost files. I then booted clonezilla into a virtual box vm, but was unable to get virtual box to see the image on the usb drive.
Within the folder that clonezilla created are files. Oct 17, 2011 two types of clonezilla are available, clonezilla live and clonezilla server edition. The other modes of clonezilla live, is the second option, and it allows users to start the live cd with a different resolution than the default option, start the entire system in ram, ejecting the live media, as well as to use. To download clonezilla live, select the following cpu architecture, file type, repository, then click the download button release branch. Server side setup and client setup for clonezilla dell us. I booted to clonezilla and created the images of the sda1 and sdb1 partitions. There may be many reasons to move an existing environment from one machine to another, or even the same, under virtualbox. You can accept the default values on the next four screens by pressing enter. Please note that you may have to do some work to get the 2nd cd mounted. Its then very easy to create an image of the entire virtualbox hard drive. This tutorial will only show you installation of cloezilla server, for configuring the server, you can check the link given at the end. To put drbl live on boot media cd or usb flash drive, the basic steps are to download prebuild drbl live. The imaging i did with clonezilla, however, was actually pulled from this esx server vm. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk.